By Michelle Chen, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine

When a little girl starts growing breasts a year after losing her first baby tooth, her parents probably understand the situation as little as she does. And when it happens to girls across the country, and to many… Read full post »

By Abby Scher, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine

The doctor's wife was an educated woman, she'd raised two children, and been active in her community through the Junior League. But it was President Obama who made her take to the barricades of the Tea Party movement.… Read full post »

 by Tanya Melich, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine

Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women's vote, that gave Democrats control of the House and Senate in 2006 and 2008 and made Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the… Read full post »

by Beverly Cooper Neufeld

From On The Issues Magazine

A small cadre of women rallied on the steps of New York's City Hall on April 28th, 2007, the day known as a Equal Pay Day. This day marks the time when a working woman catches up to what a… Read full post »

by Carol Hanisch

from On The Issues Magazine

Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething with freedom movements. The women who started the Women’s Liberation Movement, several of whom had experienc… Read full post »

by Gloria Feldt

Reprinted from On The Issues Magazine

Whenever I set foot in Brooklyn where Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic 93 years ago at 46 Amboy Street, I feel like I’m on hallowed ground. As an exhausted 20-year-old mother of three in West Texas… Read full post »

by Andrea Smith

From On The Issues Magazine 

In a society that, in large measure, condones gender violence, the problem cannot be solved by locking up a few men. It is a problem that requires a political organizing solution, one that focuses on transforming society so that it no longer condones… Read full post »

by Thea Hillman

from On The Issues Magazine

When I first learned about intersex, it was from a friend of mine who had just completed a training to work at a sex information hotline. I was horrified when she told me about the cosmetic surgery on infants’ genitals. At… Read full post »

by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it comes to sonograms, amniocentesis and standard pre-natal testing, there are no nuances. Here, the pronouncement, “It’s a girl,” can translate into… Read full post »